Wishing You Eternal Happiness Chapter 656: ：Destroy embankments and flood fields

Sweet potatoes are to be cut before and after the Dragon Boat Festival. As soon as Grandma Yue returned to Zhuangzi, she immediately passed on the news.

In other areas, flying pigeons are also used to convey messages. Whenever the flying pigeons arrive at a village, the village will send pigeons to deliver the message to the village closest to the village.

The best pigeons can fly for about four hours a day, and can fly hundreds of kilometers every hour.

Basically within five days, the news can be delivered to Yu Youyao’s Zhuangzi all over the country, and the cuttings of the vines will not be missed.

Of course, pigeons can only send simple messages to fixed locations. Some important messages cannot be sent by pigeons.

Xiaozhouzhuang also got the news.

Back then, Zhou Yongniu exposed Zhou Yongchang's deception, greed and deception of his master's money. Later, when Yu Youyao showed kindness and power at the same time, he was completely devoted to Yu Youyao.

After Zhou Yonghe became the manager, he took him with him to do things.

Later Zhou Yonghe wanted to go to the **** agency, so he recommended Zhou Yongniu to be the steward of Xiao Zhouzhuang.

Zhou Yongniu was very convinced of the eldest lady, and immediately went to the village to discuss the matter: "Miss Zhuangzi will distribute sweet potato vines for us to plant ourselves. I plan to arrange for the people on the village to plant all the private land at home. For those who don’t have private land, let them open up a piece of land to plant potato vines. The manager of the eldest lady’s village said that sweet potatoes are drought-resistant and ridge-resistant. I went to Rouge Village today, and the manager Li of the village took me there. I’ve seen that cuttings are growing in some sandy areas, and I’m looking at the wasteland carefully, maybe I can grow them too.”

Mr. Zhuang has turned gray and lost his teeth. He becomes drowsy when he sits down and wants to doze off: "These sweet potatoes are not a crop of our Zhou Dynasty. No one has ever grown them before. The court has grown them every year. We are distributing new species, but only a few have been successfully tested, and the ones that have barely survived are of little use..."

Zhou Yongniu interrupted him: "The eldest lady will not fool us. When she said she could farm, it must be true. You always know that the eldest lady has a bodhisattva heart. There is a drought in the north, and every household has a hard time. Fortunately, many families have long been out of food. In Lijiazhuang, people starved to death last year. Our little Zhouzhuang is also under the care of the eldest lady, so we can barely get by."

Mr. Zhuang was stunned for a moment, and after thinking for a while he said, "That being said, we don't have much private land, so we all planted drought-tolerant beans earlier."

Zhou Yongniu gritted his teeth and said: "Shovel all the beans and plant sweet potatoes. Those who have young men at home will go to the mountains to clear up wasteland and plant as many sweet potatoes as possible." Worried that Mr. Zhuang would not agree, he added: "The private land is only so small. Planting a field of potato vines is not enough for one family to eat. You never see that the potato vines will grow into one piece and the leaves can be eaten. Now that they are planted, by June or July, the potato vines will grow into a field."

Mr. Zhuang objected: "What if the seeds don't survive?"

Zhou Yongniu also has a bullish temper and only accepts death: "The eldest lady said that if you can farm, you can farm."

Mr. Zhuang felt it was inappropriate: "What if."

Zhou Yongniu raised his eyebrows and said, "The eldest lady was able to grow it herself before letting us grow it. The manager of Xiaoli Village participated in the trial planting of sweet potatoes. He said that the eldest lady is a living Bodhisattva, and you can definitely survive growing sweet potatoes. ."

This is a scholar encountering soldiers. He cannot explain why. Mr. Zhuang has a headache: "Tomorrow, take a few prestigious people from the village to Rouge Village again."

Zhou Yongniu was also unambiguous. On the second day, when it was still dark, he took more than thirty people to Rouge Village.

It was already noon when the group arrived at Rouge Village.

Manager Li of Xiaoli Village got the news and personally took them to the village to see the sweet potato cuttings and told them about the situation of the banana vines. He then took them to Xiaoli Village and found that every family in Xiaoli Village had private plots. , are also preparing to cut potato vines, and some villagers are clearing up wasteland in the mountains to plant sweet potatoes.

Butler Li said: "Sweet potato vines only need to loosen the soil, create a ridge, and pour a ladle of water when cutting, and they will survive without having to worry about it. This thing is very cheap to survive. If it survives with cuttings, it can survive on its own without having to worry about it." Changshuo, I have been farming for most of my life, and this is the first time I have encountered such easy-to-grow crops. We in Xiaoli Village don’t grow anything but sweet potatoes.”

Zhou Yongniu and his party asked many questions.

Guanshi Li has participated in the trial planting and knows very well about sweet potatoes. He is an expert and knows the ropes. We are all farmers, so how can we not hear the truth from lies? Gradually, the doubts and concerns in his heart were dispelled.

The same thing happened to Yu Youyao's Zhuangzi all over the country.

Yu Youyao didn’t know that one of his small actions would save countless people in the future.

It’s the fourth day of May in a blink of an eye, and everyone at home is preparing for the Dragon Boat Festival tomorrow.

Yu Youyao was no exception. She went to the bamboo forest with a basket and picked a lot of bamboo shoots and leaves.

After returning to Yayuyuan, Xia Tao had just changed her clothes when Xia Tao hurried over: "Miss, it's not good, there is an urgent report from Zhejiang to Beijing, saying that it is the Dragon Boat Festival flood in Zhejiang, and it has rained for three days and three nights in a row. The heavy rains swollen the river banks, washed away the dams in six counties, countless villages and towns, and the rice fields were flooded."

The teacup in Yu Youyao's hand fell to the ground with a crash and shattered into pieces.

Xia Tao was startled and fell to her knees with a thump.

Yu Youyao's face turned pale, but her hand still held the tea cup, but it was shaking badly. She gritted her teeth and asked, "Six counties are all flooded?!"

Xia Tao said: "Urgent, urgent news was shouted all the way to Beijing. Many people heard it. It seems that everything is flooded."

"All six counties are flooded!!" Yu Youyao suddenly turned up the volume, and even her voice was trembling: "Zhejiang is a prosperous land in the south of the Yangtze River, with a dense population. The six counties combined have an unknown number of people~IndoMTL. com~The fields are unknown," his trembling hands suddenly clenched into fists, and even the voice was squeezed out from between his teeth: "The rice seedlings in the south have just been inserted into the fields. They have not yet turned green, and they will be washed away by the heavy rain. It's all over." Her eyes suddenly turned red, and her face turned frighteningly white: "There is a severe drought in the north, and famine will occur in the second half of the year. Both the court and the people are counting on the food harvest in the south to survive."

The dams in six counties were destroyed, and it was far from possible that only six counties were affected.

At least half of the fields in Zhejiang will have no harvest this year.

Zhejiang has no grain to collect, what will happen to the imperial court’s taxes?

Without food from the south, what will happen if there is a severe drought in the north?

Xia Tao had never seen the young lady lose control of her emotions like this before, and she was very worried.

"Six counties, not six villages, not six towns, but six counties, millions of people." Yu Youyao trembled with her lips. She simply couldn't imagine how many people would be killed and injured by the floods in the south. , what will be the consequences if the fields are flooded? After the natural disaster, what we will face is the disease, and how many families will be destroyed and people will die.

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